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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Fantastically engaging read - the second person address is interesting and creates an intimacy with the main character. Plays on the idea of recounting stories to friends over food - and thereby perhaps implies the idea of an unreliable narrator.
Great prose, I could 'see' everything clearly and Hamid slowly boils up the tension through clever asides of the narrator.
Prompts self-reflection from the reader - written for a typical (presumed white) Westerner.
Ending is brilliantly but irritatingly ambiguous.
Great prose, I could 'see' everything clearly and Hamid slowly boils up the tension through clever asides of the narrator.
Prompts self-reflection from the reader - written for a typical (presumed white) Westerner.
Ending is brilliantly but irritatingly ambiguous.
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This went down easily, it's short and engaging and made me want to visit Lahore despite being mostly about New York.
I like that it's a personal love story told against and influenced by major political events.
I like that it's a personal love story told against and influenced by major political events.
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I think the point of this book was well made, but some of the secondary story lines were overwrought and the monologue narration was very annoying.
I really liked the writing style, however I did not appreciate the ending, nor the categorization of this novel being a thriller.
I've thought about this book for a while. I finished the book felling underwhelmed, but the more I thought of the message and the analogy of the book, the deeper the message hit me, so I raised my rating from 3 stars to 4.
The parallelism between the main characters relationship with AmErica and his relationship with Erica is very interesting and is the part of the book that continued to simmer with me after I put the physical story down.
I am not a fan of the ambiguous ending. Who is he and who is the man he is talking to? What happens next? I guess our view of the world is what shapes the end of the story.
I wouldn't say I like neatly wrapped up endings. I like to imagine where each character's life and decisions took them in the future, but I don't want to have to imagine what happens immediately after the story ends.
The parallelism between the main characters relationship with AmErica and his relationship with Erica is very interesting and is the part of the book that continued to simmer with me after I put the physical story down.
Spoiler
His desire to be liked and fit in so much, that he is willing to become someone else and still be rejected.I am not a fan of the ambiguous ending. Who is he and who is the man he is talking to? What happens next? I guess our view of the world is what shapes the end of the story.
I wouldn't say I like neatly wrapped up endings. I like to imagine where each character's life and decisions took them in the future, but I don't want to have to imagine what happens immediately after the story ends.